 | Catharine Maria Sedgwick - 1830 - 600 pages
...day we parted. I am right — It is all fudge — there •' is no lion in the way. I tell you again, make hay " while the sun shines — strike while the iron is hot '' — clench the nail" — Louis sta^d from his seat, but Miss Clarence without observing him, read... | |
 | 1841 - 744 pages
...: you go down and look fierce, and tell him bold you won't have it.' ' What, now, ma T 1 Yes, now. Make hay while the sun shines — strike while the iron is hot.' ' I'ma good mind, but — ' ' Do it ! Men is cowards when a woman's blood's up. If you cringe to 'em,... | |
 | Charles Dickens, William Harrison Ainsworth, Albert Smith - Literature - 1841 - 710 pages
...: you go down and look fierce, and tell him bold you won't have it." " What, now, ma ? " "Yes, now. Make hay while the sun shines — strike while the iron is hot." " I 'ma good mind, but — " " Do it ! Men is cowards when a woman's blood 'e up. If you cringe to... | |
 | Parlour novelist - 1846 - 412 pages
...you the day we parted. I am right, it is all fudge — there is no lion in the way. I tell you again, make hay while the sun shines — strike while the iron is hot — clench the nail." Louis started from his seat, but Miss Clarence, without observing him, read on... | |
 | Catharine Maria Sedgwick - American fiction - 1852 - 530 pages
...the day wo parted. I am right — it is all fudge — there is no lion in the way. I tell you again, make hay while the sun shines — strike while the iron is hot — clinch the nail." — Louis started from his seat, but Miss Clarence, without observing him, read... | |
 | Henry Cockton - 1856 - 400 pages
...; you go down and look fierce, and tell 'him bold you won't have it." "What, now, ma?" " Yes, now. Make hay while the sun shines — strike while the iron is hot." "I'ma good mind, but " " Do it ! Men is cowards when a woman's blood's up. If you cringe to 'em, they... | |
 | T.B. Mills & Co - Arkansas - 1876 - 440 pages
...of which it behooves the active and far-seeing to avail themselves while the opportunity is offered. "Make hay while the sun shines." "Strike while the iron is hot." I offer for sale in lots to suit the purchaser, and on terms to suit the times, One Million Acres of... | |
 | Ebenezer Cobham Brewer - English language - 1877 - 854 pages
...maxim, as Solon's saw : Know thyself. Adage, ad'. age, a pithy sentence expressing a rule of action : as Make hay while the sun shines. Strike while -the iron is hot. Never look a gift horse in the mouth. Axiom, a self-evident truth : as the whole is greater than a... | |
 | John Taylor (insurance agent.) - 1880 - 132 pages
...at the back of his bald head, for there is nothing to hold him by. Once lost may be lost for ever. Make hay while the sun shines. Strike while the iron is hot. Be prompt to seize every advantage. 5. A good address. A teacher must seek to make himself agreeable.... | |
 | Carl Gustaf Björkman - English language - 1889 - 1380 pages
...the opportunity; improve an opportunity; avail one's -elf of (en. embrace, seize) an opportunity; iM. make hay while the sun shines; strike while the iron is hot; taga tiden i ~, make eood nee of (the) time; take time by the forelock; n>i. not let the grass grow... | |
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I tell you again, make hay while the sun shines — strike while the iron is hot — clench the nail. 
